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Well, I have a weird video to share. I’m sure the hip blog crowd had seen this a million times but for the uninitiated, this appears to be some sort of weird marketing for a Japanese movie called gore police.
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Hey guys, sorry bout the silence as usual, but my excuse is that I am experiencing some health issues lately to the tune of massive headaches and lost of productive filming. Filming which I have not taken advantage of enough. I should be interviewing every band I film and making promos for them.
But I digress, between now and all the time since I last posted I have scrapped a few things off the bottom of the internet for your approval.
Yes, you can count me as one of the umpteen million people who just don’t get it when it comes to Stella, but I am super duper way into everything else these 3 guys do. In comedy I place them in my top 3 of all time. Bob and and David, and Larry David and anyone he works with being the other 2.
So when I was perusing Michael Ian Black’s Blog, and I was quite excited to see the headline about the Stella Winter Tour 2008. But sadly, no Portland show.
Maybe your city s on the list? Anyway, here is an old clip.
These guys shoulda been bigger but broke up right before hardcore was peaking in mainstream popularity. I haven’t been to into them till recently and I am still getting acquainted with their melodic stylings.
One thing to be said about them is they have really short songs. Anyways, it’s gonna be on Copperlung Records and you can get way more info than I can give by going to Exclaim.
Kid Dynamite – Breakin a Memory
Yep, it’s quite alright. Unfortunately they are RIAA material so that’s all I’m gonna say cept there are some tunes on their myspace. Oh the video on their website has Robert Smith looking a lot like Heath Ledger’s Joker.
Apparently Montreal is a place where you should always have someone guarding your van and trailer with all of your entire life in it. Winnipeg hardcore band Comeback Kid “had their van and trailer stolen last night (October 23) from a public parking lot outside of their hotel“.
My heart really goes out to them. That type of thing sucks. All there merch was in that van too. All you Canada lovers out there take note, Canada sucks just as much as all the other not third world nations. No offense Allan.
I once called Allan the John Chow of mp3 blogging and he didn’t like it. I’ve felt like a major kick in the pants ever since.
Anywhoo, Allan’s having a contest. All it takes is to comment with a valid email. There are 2 1 gig flash drives at stake.
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I went out with a girl who was into some really terrible stuff. I’d make fun of her for her music styling and her reply would always be, “but it’s European” as if all euros had one up on talent. We didn’t last very long.
In fact, the majority of my music is American. So I thought I should write about some of the brits today.
First off, The Damned have a new album slated for release on December 12 in the states called “So Whose Paranoid” and you can purchase a download right now.
I haven’t listened to the thing the whole way through but Dave is sounding as haunting as ever. In fact, what I have heard so far is about as close to machine gun etiquette as you are going to get. The tags on what cd said ska but I don’t hear anything remotely ska related on the whole album save an ever present organ on most tracks. I’d post tracks but I want to wait till it’s on the shelves of record stores.
Some fun things I learned about the Damned today.
the first punk rock band from England to release a single (“New Rose“), an album (Damned Damned Damned), and to tour the United States
Shadow of Love
So I was bored and I watched a documentary on Crass and had a few thoughts I wanted to share.
1. Crass are a bunch of hippies. Well, really, they aren’t actually flower children, but their ideas are right along side of the hippies. Sustainability, peace and anarchism, squatting and protesting were all things hippies “were” into.
2. Total freedom is what they say they have by living on a commune. Living far away from everyone and not being bothered sounds more like a luxury than a right to me. I wonder when they are on their deathbed, if they’ll have any regrets.
3. I’d love to watch Penn and Teller visit that house…
I honestly don’t know I found this band. I have a crapload of music that I love to check out. I get tons of stuff and I take lots of chances. More often than not I get burned. Especially with most Euro stuff.
These guys were affiliated with Crass somehow, but these guys sound less punk and more post ala gang of four. Apparently very political, but sometimes I wonder if they just make political songs so they won’t ever run out of anyhing to write about.
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Dear Cut Off Your Hands,
You guys can rock harder than you do on your new album. Or should I say EP? Considering most of the songs on your new album are from previous EPs. What’s up with that? The one you re-recorded, “expectations“, you should have left it how it was. It’s no big deal, you have a bunch of new songs that have to be just as good as the EP stuff? Right? “Turn Cold” is definitely the highlight of the new material as it’s the only song that holds up to the old sound.
Which brings me to your new sound. It’s already been done. By heroin junkies from the U.K. 2 or 3 decades ago. You are better than this. Have you started using the junk too? I’m not mad, just disappointed.
I only know of 3 bands from New Zealand. One of them is fictional. The other wears masks. Please give me someone from New Zealand to look up to once again.
P.S. This Video is really cool.
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I’m back like a deadbeat dad who just lost his job and wants to play house rather than live on the streets to let you know about a few happenings on the web and in the real world.
And enough with the gosh dang economy. One person will win, but they have the same economic interests backing them.
Senator McCain:
| Senator McCain:
Merrill Lynch $349,170 Citigroup Inc $287,801 Morgan Stanley $249,377 Goldman Sachs $220,045 JPMorgan Chase & Co $206,392 AT&T Inc $183,663 Credit Suisse Group $175,503 PricewaterhouseCoopers $163,670 Blank Rome LLP $153,426 US Government $152,118 US Army $150,470 Wachovia Corp $147,456 Greenberg Traurig LLP $145,737 UBS AG $141,365 Bank of America $133,975 FedEx Corp $121,904 Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher $120,246 US Dept of Defense $118,125 Lehman Brothers $115,707 Bear Stearns $108,000 |
Barack Obama:
Goldman Sachs $739,521 University of California $697,506 Harvard University $501,489 Citigroup Inc $492,548 Google Inc $487,355 JPMorgan Chase & Co $475,112 National Amusements Inc $432,169 Microsoft Corp $429,656 UBS AG $419,550 Lehman Brothers $391,774 Wilmerhale Llp $383,024 Time Warner $375,063 Sidley Austin LLP $370,916 Skadden, Arps et al $360,409 Stanford University $341,399 Morgan Stanley $341,380 Latham & Watkins $328,879 Jones Day $309,960 University of Chicago $294,237 General Electric $290,584 |
This data came from Open Secrets. Notice how many names overlap? Notice how many are financial institutions? Notice a few that failed this year? The ones that didn’t fail, are ones that bought institutions that did fail. Maybe it’s a coincidence…
Bottled water is yucky. There was a great Penn & Teller BS episode on this.
Great website, but really, they say it best themselves:
In punk rock, stating that you’ve been around for a decade is essentially admitting that you’re an ancient vessel amidst a sea of doe-eyed, baby-faced, sometimes-talented (but often not) newbies who have barely tested the chilly DIY waters before sailing for warmer shores.
Don’t forget about the free net album.
Lightning Bolt and Bjork collaborate. Oh yeah, the radiohead guy too.
New Q-Tip Video-”Move”
Q-Tip – “Move” from Three/21 Films on Vimeo.
Take On Me Literal Version
My sister thinks it’s fun to put headphones on and run. While I personally wouldn’t run for anything short of immediate personal danger or the thought of missing a bus or plane, I can still kind of respect that she think’s it’s fun to make yourself sweaty, tired and out of breathe.
She’s been asking me for a week or so to make her a running mix and I finally decided to make the time to make her a mix for running. I tried to think of what it would be like to run for a strait hour and and it made me thirsty and wanting to take a nap. But seriously folks, I tried to start it out mid-tempo, and have the pace pick up and slow down wih a gentle victory trot at the very end.
This mix has it all from Built to Spill to Skinny Puppy to Battles to Aesop Rock and everything in between. 18 songs. Play them in order for maximum effect.
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Tags: battles, Built To Spill, mix
